Trump v Biden: The First Presidential Debate, Sky News, CNN & BBCThis was never anticipated to be an edifying hour and half of prime-time television, and it certainly wasn’t.
Some pundits reckoned Joe Biden would score a win just by staying awake; Trump watchers assumed he would pummel Biden into submission. What none of them had bargained for was the utter incompetence of the debate moderator, Chris Wallace from Fox News.
Wallace is an experienced broadcaster, but he was unable to maintain any semblance of control. It wasn’t just Trump who flagrantly disobeyed the rules that the two campaigns had agreed upon. Biden, although not as blatant, was also guilty of it. It was shambolic right from the get-go.
Trump was his usual bombastic, rude self, while Biden came across as a doddery fool who couldn’t complete a coherent sentence and just repeatedly said “here’s the deal” without ever managing to articulate what the deal was.
